Dr. Kathleen McCubbin
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 30 Jul
Dr. Kathleen McCubbin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So that cartilaginous ring, the cricoid cartilage, was fractured, and there were multiple fracture portions on the front of the ring.
Cricoid fractures can be seen in either compression of neck, such as manual strangulation where there's intense pressure on the cricoid.
They can be seen in blunt impact injuries.
They can be seen when you have a strike or a chop to the neck or you have an impact of the neck against a hard surface.
It is possible that a seatbelt could cause a cricoid cartilage fracture in certain situations.
I did not think so, no.
So when I see the cricoid cartilage fracture with the hemorrhage around it, as well as that pattern of multiple linear and irregular abrasions on the neck,
And I did not see any evidence of what we call a seatbelt sign, which is a abrasion or contusion on the side of the neck where the seatbelt would be.
When you put all of these things together, the findings on the skin surface on the neck, as well as the injuries of the cricoid cartilage and the bleeding around it, and the totality of all the injuries that I saw, I did not feel that this injury was consistent with a seatbelt injury.
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